Before my tattoo... as I was researching local tattoo artists... the thing that kept coming back about Mel D.s tattoo work was how clean it was.
Clean. Beautiful. Straight lines.... The most frequently used word to describe his art was "clean". And from an art perspective you cant get much better than that. Precision Line... and Color... making shape... and form.... and depth.
Honestly it's the way life should be. Life should be like art..... a painting made of strangers and acquaintances, and friends and loved ones... (Or lovers...).. All of them.... clean lines... making up a conglomeration of shape, and form... Towards the end of making up the overall picture of life.
The world should be a picture of something beautiful.
But the world doesn't function like that. In fact, sadly if the world were a canvas of human relationships, I think what we would find is a vaguely familiar shape mixed among a violent splatter of paint.... applied forcefully with say... something like a shotgun.
I used to hang out with Recovery people a few years ago... And what I found is that recovery people tend to understand the chaos of life because they've been on both ends of the shotgun blast.
The saying goes that "hurt people... hurt people". And rather than building relationships... hurt people make deals.... (and in desperation.... Threats!). And in the end.. All of it adds up to chaos.
I've also found that recovery people have no problem being real and believing that all of us have something of the devil inside us.... because they've experienced him first hand.... Being offended they've offended strangers.... acquaintances. Slighted friends.... Used and neglected families... Jilted lovers...
All of it.... always like a shotgun blast spraying chaos all over the canvas of the world.
Its the reason, I think, that in recovery it's all about "staying clean". Because only clean people can really build (or rebuild) relationships. And only clean lines can make up the picture as a whole.
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